Make up on the train: get up ten mins earlier

LOL, this made me laugh. Jabby elbows!

If it takes an hour to do make up for a normal work day, I actually feel a bit sorry for her that she spends so much time and effort on it. I know some people enjoy that but it is quite extreme and doesnt seem like something enjoyable, more like something she feels she needs to do which is sad.

It’s really not comparable!

When people do this on the train it somehow feels disrespectful. Putting lipstick on is one thing but full make up? I agree with op that you just get up 10 mins earlier. You would never go out in your bra and knickers and get dressed on the train because you didn’t have time to do it at home.

Perhaps trains should have special ablutions carriages where people can go to finish having a wash or getting dressed or whatnot.

Do you object to the principal OP? It sounds like this passenger was very inconsiderate but had she not been (ie. not taking up lots of space, no spraying, no mess), would you still object?

I agree! My older sister was so adept at painting her face on a moving bus, it fascinated me. We didn’t really get on but we’d often catch the same bus to work.

(And I’d sometimes be hiding under a coat because I’d ‘borrowed’ one of her tops).

I wonder if we were on the same train with the lady doing her nails?

Surely, there cant be that many?

If it took her an hour to put her make up on, then getting up 10 mins earlier wouldn’t have helped her, surely?

I do think she could have been more considerate re: mess and spray, but I can quite see why someone wants to make their journey more efficient and get an extra hour’s sleep.

I wonder if people in less individualistic countries do this?

I agree.

I had to do it once but I did it in the toilet. I takes me 5 mins and it was a quiet train with other toilets so I wasnt hogging it.

Someone was painting their nails on the last train I went on.

I dunno, I dont get why everyone needs to see you putting concealer on your spots. Have some dignity and discretion.

I was on a train once when someone decided to paint their bloody nails. The smell made me feel ill. YANBU. Another time I got a gob full of perfume that they liberally sprayed all over themselves.

I am slightly in awe of the hair straighteners! What next, making your breakfast smoothie from scratch on the little airline table?

Agreed, OP! It is so rude. If you must put make up on/spray stuff on a train, go into the toilet to do it.

I’m just jealous of all of you who have trains with enough space to spread out makeup, and apparently some of you even have a choice of seats!

Nobody is putting makeup on on my train, because we are packed in like sardines.

i agree! I once got off the train with someone’s face powder all down the arm of my coat where she’d been applying it.
i watched someone straighten their hair a few months ago: plugged them in and straightened her long hair right at the train table. I was genuinely shocked and disgusted ( I do mine daily so I know it’s a pain but it’s done before leaving home!)

Well if it took her an hour, why are you saying she could have got up ten minutes earlier?

Clearly not.

I don’t do this myself as am dyspraxic, but I enjoy watching other women apply makeup.

I don't think you're too 'subtle'. I just don't think it's remotely 'surprising' to get annoyed about make up application on public transport when you've just been elbowed throughout a journey and hit in the face with setting spray - irrespective of whatever other anti-social behaviour may occur on trains.

If OP had been hit with the detritus of a passenger sitting next to her cutting his toenails <shudders>, she'd probably have started a thread about that (I know I would). But on this case it was elbows and setting spray, so that's why there's a thread on the subject.

So why not do it in the loos at work?

I once shared a train table with a drag artist who did their make up on the move. They went from plain Jane to an absolute vision while being jostled around. It was very impressive. I nearly asked them to do my make up once they were done.

Next time, say something. Get spray in my face, etc would have pissed me off.

It doesn’t exactly bother me, but I do think it’s very undignified.

I don't like it as someone constantly moving and rustling is beyond irritating but I accept that's probably my problem, not theirs.

I don't really care about the concept though.

I always finish off my make-up on the train. It doesn't affect anyone at all.

If someone's taking two seats and you can't sit down, just say "Can I sit there?"

If someone's jabbing you with their elbows, spread out, do it back or just say "Can you be careful and stop jabbing me?"

If someone's sprayed you with setting spray, fake an attack of breathlessness, have a coughing fit all over them, or just say "Don't spray in my face".

It doesn’t bother me at all, to be honest.

I find it irritating too, and very ‘look at me’. Not a chance i’d do it. Spraying a setting spray on a train is ridiculous.